Voices of freedom
Subtitle: an oral history of the civil rights movement from the 1950s through the 1980s
By: [compiled by] Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer with Sarah Flynn.
Contributors: Hampton, Henry, 1940-1998; Fayer, Steve, 1935-; Flynn, Sarah, 1950-
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 692
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Sources; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- History -- 1964- -- Sources; Oral history
Notes: Includes index

Includes bibliographical references (p. [665]-670)
Table of contents: title: "I wanted the whole world to see" / Emmett Till, 1955; title: Montgomery bus boycott, 1955-1956: "Like a revival starting"; title: Little Rock crisis, 1957-1958: "I had cracked the wall"; title: Student sit-ins in Nashville, 1960: "Badge of honor"; title: Freedom rides, 1961: "Sticks and bricks"; title: Albany, Georgia, 1961-1962: "Mother lode"; title: James Meredith enters Ole Miss, 1962: "Things would never be the same"; title: Birmingham, 1963: "Something has got to change"; title: Organizing in Mississippi, 1961-1963: "The reality of what we were doing hit me"; title: March on Washington, 1963: "They voted with their feet"; title: Sixteenth Street Church bombing, 1963: "You realized how intense the opposition was"; title: Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964: "Representation and the right to participate"; title: Selma, 1965: "Troopers, advance"; title: Malcolm X (1925-1965): "Our own black shining prince!"; title: Lowndes County Freedom Organization, 1965-1966: "Vote for the Panther, then go home"; title: Meredith march, 1966: "Hit them now"; title: Chicago, 1966: "Chicago was a symbol"; title: Muhammad Ali, 1964-1967: "I am the greatest"; title: King and Vietnam, 1965-1967: "His philosophy made it impossible not to take a stand"; title: Birth of the Black Panthers, 1966-1967: "We wanted control"; title: Detroit, 1967: "Inside most black people there was a time bomb"; title: Election of Carl Stokes: "We had to be organized"; title: Howard University, 1967-1968: "You saw the silhouette of her Afro"; title: King's last crusade: "We've got some difficult days ahead"; title: Resurrection City, 1968: "The end of a major battle"; title: Ocean Hill-Brownsville, 1967-1968: "Everything became more political"; title: Black Panthers, 1968-1969: "How serious and deadly the game"; title: Attica and prisoners' rights, 1971: "There's always time to die"; title: Gary convention, 1972: "Unity without uniformity"; title: Busing in Boston, 1974-1976: "As if some alien was coming into the school"; title: Atlanta and affirmative action, 1973-1980: "Politics of inclusion"; title: Epilogue: From Miami to America's future